"Protection against stimuli is an almost more important function for the living organism than reception of stimuli." CD p. 289 Freud's Death Drive since it was first advanced was considered a highly controversial theoretical ...

The aim of this Dissertation is to illustrate that the body, in its choreographic dance is shown to articulate the unconscious. The Dissertation has been compiled, following researching the topic and accessing relevant ...

In the first paper of Freud's 'Contributions to the Psychology of Love' he states that the often bewildering nature of his observational material from the love lives of his patients can be quite easily explained by applying ...

"Psychoanalysis starts but does not end with Freud". It is true to say that Freud was the father of psychoanalysis, but even so it did not make everybody else tolerant of his ideas. Freud was indeed the first great analyst, ...

I am taking the opportunity in this paper to examine trauma in particular Real Accidental Trauma; Language, with particular reference to the lack of verbalisation brought about by trauma and the Traversing of the Fantasy ...

This paper is concerned with raising questions regarding the casual factors of psychogenic autism. There is no definitive cause of autism so I have drawn on ideas formulated by Sigmund Freud and developed by Jacques Lacan. ...

The story of Beloved is the story of human subjectivity. Maya Angelou once wrote that "No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place". (Conversations: ...

The purpose of this paper is to give a psychoanalytic view of psychosis from a Lacanian perspective. Psychosis being a broad subject, I will elaborate and unfold some of Lacan's theory with particular reference to three ...

'A dialogue of the unspeakable' describes the analytic discourse for what it is, an attempt to speak about what one is not conscious of In this sense I will be writing about what is already established in the relationship ...

This Final Year Project will make explicit an implicit assumption that is contained within the work of Sigmund Freud, namely, that Freud's conception of what he termed the death drive is manifested in pathological states, ...

In 1980, the year prior to his death, Jacques Lacan made his last public appearance at a time when he was establishing his new school, the Cause freudienne. In his opening address he made the following statement, "I have ...

This Final Year Project, entitled "Addicted to Death: Serial Killing as an Addiction" investigates the phenomenon of serial killing and attempts to explain the addictive quality that it possesses. This will entail a peering ...